names

[timepiececlock]

Before you ask, _NO_ none of these names were chosen because of BtVS. the two familiar ones just happen to be familiar because one is a fairly common name, and the other's part of my cultural obsession with things Scot/Irish.

I've been thinking of names I liked for my children since I was about 11 years old. Is that weird?

(provided the father is willing to be bullied into it...)

What I'd like to name my future children:

Boys
1. Connor
2. Tobias
3. William (shortened to Will not Bill)
4. Trevor

Girls
1. Rhiannon
2. Cassandra (Casey)
3. Raye
4. ... I really liked the name "Margot" here, but my mom swore she'd disinheret me if I named her granddaughter of hers that.

Comments

[bloodypoetry.livejournal.com]

You should totally spell Cassandra with a K. There aren't enough of us K Kassandra's out there. *snickers* And, good nicknames for Cassandra's are Cassi, Sandra, Kass....ect....


*eyes her totally pointless post*

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't like Sandra, Cassi, or Kass. I like Casey, and I like Cassandra. But once she got older, it'd be up to her, I suppose.

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[bloodypoetry.livejournal.com]

Casey is a good name. *nods* And yeah, Kassi can get teased, it ryhmes too well with other things. Heh. I put up with 'Kassi-assi' all through High School

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

wow, really? I used to get called Sara Weirdo because my last name was Weir--not very original-- but that stopped after middle school. I didn't get teased or see much teasing going on in High school; at least not of the name-calling variety.

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[bloodypoetry.livejournal.com]

Well, alot of my other nicknames were much worse, but the assi one was most commonly used. Hehe

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

As someone who is named Margo, I wholeheartedly agree with your mother.

(which is why I go by my middle name)

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

As someone who is named Margo, I wholeheartedly agree with your mother.

Really? :pout: But I like it. You're probably rihgt though...:sigh: I guess I'll have to save it for a pet, then.

Totally unrelated...

[sabinablue.livejournal.com]

Last summer, my son's summer camp teacher's name was Miss Willow. Cool, I thought. One day, I heard her call over to her two-year-old son: "Xander..."

*blink*

I am totally not kidding.

I always liked the name Chloe, but I know I'll never get to use it, which might be just as well. Scout, too. And Atticus for a boy. Name speculation is oodles of fun.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ah. Someone's read 'To Kill A Mockingbird', ne?

I like 'Scout' too, as a nickname. :giggle: I have a 4 year old 2nd cousin named Elizabeth, so I get to call her "Little Bit". ;) And since it sounds so much like her name, nobody thinks it's strange or at all buffy-related.

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

Connor is very popular in the UK right now, in about ten years or so, high schools will be full of them!

I really like Cassandra, but watch out if the girl ever grows up and reads Classics. She may be less then thrilled!

Oh and it is not strange to be thinking of names for kids that young. I think of names for kids and I do not plan on having any!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I really like Cassandra, but watch out if the girl ever grows up and reads Classics. She may be less then thrilled!

Classic what? Classical Mythology? Literature? Cause I know that Cassandra was the name of the Seeress in Troy who was cursed--but that was in Homer I think, not in mythology.

Clarification

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

"Classic what? Classical Mythology? Literature?"

I meant as in reading Classics as a degree/school subject. (Classics in this sense is the study of greco-roman culture/mythology/philosophy, so I guess I meant reading all three.)

"Cause I know that Cassandra was the name of the Seeress in Troy who was cursed--but that was in Homer I think, not in mythology."

Ahh. See now I was taught that Homer IS mythology after all he is a major source when looking at how the ancient greeks saw there gods. I was also told that it is popularly supposed that he was basing his work on earlier stories so I think Cassandra the seer can count as a myth, at the very least in the same way that Faust or King Lear can.

I was thinking of the sad way Cassandra got her powers of prophecy or rather the sad way Apollo treated her. Greek gods are rather like High shcool boys,only after one thing!

On the subject of Classical names I really like Medea, but again I think if the girl found out where I got it from she'd kill me!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

See now I was taught that Homer IS mythology after all he is a major source when looking at how the ancient greeks saw there gods.

Ah. That was always a rather fuzzy distinction, in my mind.

I think Cassandra the seer can count as a myth, at the very least in the same way that Faust or King Lear can.

I didn't realize that people considered King Lear a myth. Faust, yeah; but I thought Lear was something from Shakespeare's head. But I've never read it, so I don't know.

On the subject of Classical names I really like Medea, but again I think if the girl found out where I got it from she'd kill me!

I like how Medea sounds, but I wouln't call name that. Actually, the 'where you got it' part is kinda cool. But the name itself is rather anachronistic, and she'd probably get teased for having a "weird name". It'd work as a neat middle name though.

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[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

King lear was based on an old English/Celtic myth. I love shakespeare dearly, but he never made anything up when he could nick it (albeit to make it better!)!

You are of course right about any girl getting called medea being mocked (But check out the other names I like in my LJ!), but part of me thinks that Children get picked on in school anyway, even if there name is Jon, so I might as well give a child a uncommon name.

Incidently I went to university with a girl who had a most beautiful name, but I always wondered hwo hard growing up with it must have been, learning to spell it and all. Her parents must really have liked a Thousand and One Arabian nights, beacuse the girl was called...(not even sure I can spell it...)

Scheherazade!

Shard

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[hils.livejournal.com]

I nearly put Scheherazade on my list of names until it occured to me that I didn't know how to spell it. Kudos to you for having a go where I chickened out

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I love that name. And I think you pelled it right, except that first 'a' might actually be an 'e'.

[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

Heh. I thought I was the only crazy who came up with baby names when I don't even want kids yet. I like your number 3 for girls, although I spell mine without the y (it's my middle name).

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually I like other spellings of that name too:

-Rae (yours?)
or
-Rei (Japanese)

[dragolyn.livejournal.com]

I like your names. Rhiannon is one of my favorites (the Husband hates it, so I can't use it), and I like Margot (though I like it spelled Margeaux). Casey's cute too. I grew up with a Casey and she loved her name. Tobias is not to my taste, but I love Tobin.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I like Tobias, but not Toby, so i'd probably not actually use that name. Never heard Tobin before; it doesn't do anything for me, I'm afraid.

I love the name Casey though. And apparently, my dad's mother has been trying to convince all her children to name a kid Casey, and through 8 grandkids, not one did. So finally last year she got a puppy and named it Casey. Unfortunately, that would be embarrassing for me later if I want to name my kid that (which I DID!), so I was kinda annoyed.